128 Million Square Kilometers Were Covered By Snow At China (up to 20 inches)

China Meteorological News Press ^ | 02/01/08 | Lin Lin

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128 Million Square Kilometers Were Covered By Snow At China

Source:China Meteorological News Press

According to CMA meteorological satellite remote sensing monitoring for snow cover, up to January 28, the total area covered by snow at 15 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) is 128.21 million square kilometers.

More than 90% of Shanghai, Jiangsu, Anhui, Henan, Hubei and Shannxi were covered by snow. The depth of snow cover at central Anhui and south Jiangsu is 30~45 cm and some areas even reached 50 cm.

China suffered rare and sustained low temperature, rain, snow and freezing weather since January 10.

Experts said that there are two reasons of this weather process, La Nina event and abnormal atmospheric circulation.

The La Nina event is the main reason of this weather process. The La Nina state came into being at August 2007 and developed rapidly. Up to January, 2008, the sea-surface temperature of east-central equatorial Pacific had been keeping over 0.5℃ lower than that of the conventional years. Stronger La Nina event can strengthen the middle latitudes atmospheric circulation and may consequently bring lower temperature and more precipitation to east China, especially Yangtze River basin and its north area.

The rare, sustained, steady abnormal atmospheric circulation at Eurasia is the direct reason of the weather process. The abnormal circulation had last 19 days (the average in January is 6 days), was favorable for invasion of cold air through Gansu Corridor. The strong northwest Pacific subtropical high has been staying above the sea southeast of China, so the cold and warm air join mainly at the middle and lower reaches of Yangtze River and its south. The southern branch trough at south of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is most active for more than ten years and brings more warm and wet air to China. A temperature inversion layer caused by cold and warm air is the main reason of the widespread freezing rain. (Feb.1)

By Lin Lin

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Ping!

[neodad]

China suffered rare and sustained low temperature, rain, snow and freezing weather since January 10.

See? Global warming must be to blame.

[Henchster]

..the sea-surface temperature of east-central equatorial Pacific had been keeping over 0.5 degrees lower than that of the conventional years. ..

PINGING Al Gore, put your jacket on jack@$$.

[gop4lyf]

You must have not gotten the memo. ALL weather is caused by global warming now! LOLOL

[NicknamedBob]

"By Lin Lin"

They have a weather reporting bureau in a Giant Panda enclosure?

[Fred Nerks]

A complete list of things caused by global warming

http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.htm

[NicknamedBob]

"You must have not gotten the memo. ALL weather is caused by global warming now!"

Um ... it always has been.

[Weaponier]

I just wonder why Karl Rove turned his weather control machine against the Chicoms.

[TigerLikesRooster]

No, Lin lin is a dog:

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

t'ʌtʃd,ɑʊn!

[Myrddin]

The trouble isn't over when the snow stops. It's going to melt and cause some pretty severe flooding as the next act in this tragedy.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

What a mess. Hope they can handle it.

[NicknamedBob]

Are you sure that’s not a panda?

I think I see a bamboo shoot sticking out of its mouth.

[pepsionice]

I was sitting there and thinking about how all this snow eventually has to melt. Those folks in California always make a big deal about how this is good for them. You would think that there would be more dams built out in the rural sections of the country.

[GeronL]

the heat is on, gotta cool it down...

this happens at a time when China claims it can control the weather

[PeterFinn]

Someone at China has interesting English.

[Myrddin]

I have a weather radio right next to my bed. This time of the year the radio is used to provide avalanche warnings. Usually around 7 AM. It's something that wouldn't have occurred to me while I was living in San Diego.

I wonder if the Three Gorges dam is going to get an unusual influx. The rural areas of China tend to be dirt poor. They aren't well prepared to handle this kind of emergency.

Another thread pointed out that we are about to discover how a disaster in China impacts the usual massive flow of goods in our direction.

[rfp1234]

Someone at China has interesting English.

Lin Lin, here's your sign!

[TigerLikesRooster]

Chinese stranded at train stations: